Sistema de Información de Ciencia y Tecnología

Polución acuática y remediación en Sistema de lagos de altura Titicaca

Nombre Abreviado 393 POLUCION
Financiamiento ASDI
Convocatoria Programa UMSA - ASDI 2013 - 2017
Categoria y Convocatoria del proyecto Programa UMSA - ASDI
Duración Inicio: 01/01/2013 Fin: 31/12/2017
Tipo de Investigación
Datos SIGEP:
Unidad ejecutora	Programa	Sub-programa	Proyecto	Actividad
95	51	0	0000	393
Resumen del Proyecto
This project will establish the basis for an inter-disciplinary, and inter-departmental research and training program at Master and Ph.D. levels in the field of water quality, hydrochemistry, monitoring and remediation in the Altiplano region. This will be achieved by consolidating the capacities for water quality monitoring, hydrochemistry, biogeochemistry of contaminants and developing remediation strategies for aquatic contaminants mainly in the Titicaca Lake. These water bodies are the most important source of fresh water in the Altiplano region and of major ecological, economic and cultural importance to a population of ca. 2,5 million. Despite their importance all of them are subject to increasing anthropogenic pressure by the growing water demand and in particular by contamination from mining industries, the agricultural runoff and untreated wastewaters. Through this Research Training Partnership program two Ph.D. graduate students will be trained in Sweden in a sandwich model, the Ph.D. students will first defend a Licentiate Thesis after the completion of 2 years before proceeding with the PhD thesis.
After the completion of 5 years, with the...Ver mas
This project will establish the basis for an inter-disciplinary, and inter-departmental research and training program at Master and Ph.D. levels in the field of water quality, hydrochemistry, monitoring and remediation in the Altiplano region. This will be achieved by consolidating the capacities for water quality monitoring, hydrochemistry, biogeochemistry of contaminants and developing remediation strategies for aquatic contaminants mainly in the Titicaca Lake. These water bodies are the most important source of fresh water in the Altiplano region and of major ecological, economic and cultural importance to a population of ca. 2,5 million. Despite their importance all of them are subject to increasing anthropogenic pressure by the growing water demand and in particular by contamination from mining industries, the agricultural runoff and untreated wastewaters. Through this Research Training Partnership program two Ph.D. graduate students will be trained in Sweden in a sandwich model, the Ph.D. students will first defend a Licentiate Thesis after the completion of 2 years before proceeding with the PhD thesis.
After the completion of 5 years, with the help of local PhD students (generated from previous collaboration periods since 2000), we propose an interdisciplinary PhD Program in Science at UMSA with a joint degree with the Swedish Universities. We also propose to strengthen existing Master Program at UMSA in which at least 4 Master students will be trained. The master students trained at UMSA and current and emerging master programs, we also be strengthen the scientific and academic collaboration with Swedish Universities.
The training and research capacities acquired by UMSA will provide Bolivia with urgently required competence to deal with water quality issues that threatens its sustainable development
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Objetivos

Objetivo General

• The first specific objective will be to obtain the approval for an inter-disciplinary doctoral program in sciences and strengthen the local master programs to provide a self administered high level training program. The main tasks to achieve this objective will be to improve the analytical capacities of our labs and organize workshops to develop agreements between existing master programs and departments. This should allow the set up of the Ph.D. program to be proposed for approval by the University authorities.

Objetivos Especificos

• The second specific objective will be to improve our knowledge about pollution in the Titicaca Lake through an intensive monitoring program to prioritize the contaminants and areas for further research needed to establish a local early warning system. The main task for this second objective will be intensive monitoring research about contaminants in Lake Titicaca. All of these should contribute with the training of a Ph.D. and generate basic information needed to prioritize contaminants and polluted sites for further research and remediation.

• The third specific objective is to improve our understanding of the effect of nutrient enrichment on the dispersal and biogeochemistry of contaminants to prioritize water treatment strategies. The main tasks will be: Characterize the relations between nutrient enrichment and microbial community, physicochemical characteristics and metal species composition; Characterize the relation between the microbial community structure and metal speciation processes in different compartments

• The fourth specific objective, collecting the information generated by the second and third objective, will be to evaluate chemical and biotechnological alternatives for remediation and degradation of contaminants such as metals, organic compounds, nitrogen and phosphorus.

Participantes

Coordinador Jorge Emilio Quintanilla Aguirre

Co-cordinador

- Participantes del proyecto

Nombre	Grado Académico	Cargo	Cédula de identidad
Erick Castillo Laura	Licenciatura	Apoyo administrativo (Categoria D)
Magali Rosio Cori Mamani	Licenciatura	Becario PostGrado (Categoria D)
Maria Isabel Chambi Tapia	Licenciatura	Becario PostGrado (Categoria D)
Ktlyn Valeria Aguirre De la Quintana	Universitario	Becario Pregrado (Categoria D)
Darío Achá Cordero	Doctorado Ph.D.	Co-coordinador (Categoria D)
Jorge Emilio Quintanilla Aguirre	Licenciatura	Coordinador (Categoria D)
Roxana Quiroga Flores	Maestria	Doctorando (Categoria D)
Israel Quino Lima	Maestria	Doctorando (Categoria D)
Jairo Herlan Dominguez Antty	Egresado	Investigador (Categoria D)
Edwin Callisaya Maqui	Bachiller	Investigador (Categoria D)
Adalid Vicente Alfaro Flores	Licenciatura	Investigador (Categoria D)
Romel Emil Aruquipa Buitre	Universitario	Investigador (Categoria D)
Raúl Vidal Quispe Choque	Licenciatura	Investigador (Categoria D)
Mauricio Rodolfo Ormachea Muñoz	Doctorado Ph.D.	Investigador (Categoria D)
Irma Ticona Butron	Licenciatura	Investigador (Categoria D)
Oswaldo Eduardo Ramos Ramos	Doctorado Ph.D.	Investigador (Categoria D)
Jhovana Ticona Butrón	Egresado	Investigador (Categoria D)
Efrain Faustino Blanco Coariti	Licenciatura	Investigador (Categoria D)
Edson Jose Chalco Calliconde	Licenciatura	Investigador (Categoria D)

- Colaboradores del proyecto

Nombre	Grado Académico	Cargo	Cédula de identidad
Ruben Choque Condori [email protected]		Chofer (Categoria D)
Hermenegildo Fernandez Callisaya	Bachiller	Chofer (Categoria D)
Rajni Hatti-Kaul [email protected]		Supervisor ()
Prosun Bhattacharya		Supervisor ()
Maria Teresa Arminda Alvarez Aliaga [email protected]	Post. Doctorado Ph.D.	Supervisor ()

Unidades Participantes

Unidad Proponente Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas

Unidad Contraparte

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